The problem of slavery as history : a global approach /

"Why did slavery--an accepted evil for thousands of years--suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on it...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Miller, Joseph Calder
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]
Series:	David Brion Davis series.
Subjects:	Slavery > History. Slavery > Historiography.